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firestorm701

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lol i have some arguments with those lists, but anyways

from the boards list:

Atlas Shrugged

The Great Gatsby

The Grapes of Wrath

1984

Animal Farm

Lord Of The Flies

A Farewell To Arms (dude learn your grammar)

from the readers list:

Atlas Shrugged

Battlefield Earth

The Lord Of The Rings (one of the greatest books ever written)

To Kill A Mocking Bird

1984

The Great Gatsby

Animal Farm

The Grapes of Wrath

Lord of the Flies

Fahrenheit 451

A Farewell to Arms

 

ive read more off the readers list, which makes me better

 

... i dont know how it works, but i can assure you that it does

 

also, i cant believe that Jeffrey Archer, Ken Follett, AND Michael Crichton did not have a single freikin entry on both of those damn charts

 

i hate them

 

i hate you all

 

i love Emma

 

thats not off topic

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cavalier_eternal

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let's see...

 

i've read...

 

1984

slaughterhouse five

animal farm

lord of the flies

catcher in the rye

a clockwork orange (my rockin isu ;))

lord of the rings

ender's game

something wicked comes this way

 

and yeah, i picked those from either list.

 

and i've been meaning to read some of the others on the list. i'll get there... eventually. i tend to go on literary binges.

 

my current novels: the two swords by r.a. salvatore

shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in rwanda by lt. gen. romeo dallaire

 

edit: and why aren't there more vonnegut novels on the list?

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Dan #2

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That's sweet, Slaughterhouse 5 was in there!!

 

Slaughterhouse 5

1984

Lord Of The Flies

The Catcher in the Rye

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Handmaids Tale

Naked Lunch

On The Road

 

I win!!! (i guess i suck...)

 

Maybe i should learn to read... On The Road WAS on the list.

 

the list was lacking one Vernon God Little. that's an amazing book.

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evan

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7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

13. 1984 by George Orwell

18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut (my favorite book of all time)

41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding (everyone has, though)

64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron

 

 

i didnt even realize i read that much until now, even though half of those were read for school related stuff.

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jordan

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WHERE'S WHERE'S WALDO!?!?!?!

 

 

HEY! that'd be a good book eh? It'd be pictures of books and you have to find Where's Waldo!!!! I'm gonna make a million dollars.... now if only I could find waldo, hahahahahahahaha jk....

 

but not really

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Red

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ULYSSES by James Joyce

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

1984 by George Orwell

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE STAND by Stephen King

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig

WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

IT by Stephen King

 

 

edit: mis-clicked.

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umboula

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Keeping in mind I work in a bookstore...

From both the lists I've read:

 

Lord of the Rings

To Kill a Mockingbird

1984

Catch 22

Brave New World

The Catcher in the Rye

Animal Farm

Slaughterhouse Five

Gone With The Wind

The Lord of the Flies

The Stand

Fifth Business

Heart of Darkness

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Handmaid's Take

A Clockwork Orange

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Haunting of Hill House

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The Call of the Wild

Farenheit 451

Watership Dowm

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Native Son

Deliverance

The Cunning Man

Lolita

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cherry_popsicles

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hmm, not very many

 

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

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ghetto-astronaut

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Main List

 

Brave New World

Catch-22

1984

Slaughterhouse-Five

Animal Farm

The Great Gatsby

A Clockwork Orange

 

Readers List

 

LOTR

Dune

The Stand

Watership Down

To Kill A Mockingbird

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

Not a very extensive list but I already bought a lot of the others which now reside in my extensive I will get to reading them pile, such as Sallinger, Hemingway, Rushdie, etc. (I get very lazy for reading in the University season so the pile really adds up around this time)

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redragon

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From The Board's List:

18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

 

From The Reader's List:

4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

14. DUNE by Frank Herbert

19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer (My namesake, Thanks Dad)

29. THE STAND by Stephen King

31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison

45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft

51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury

66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

84. IT by Stephen King

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Prometheon

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I'm not going through the whole list, but I just want to say that I've had to read Lord of the Flies on two seperate occasions for school, and I didn't finish it either time. Great concept, mediocre execution.

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MuttersomeTaxicab

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THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

DUNE by Frank Herbert

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein

NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey

 

 

Some of them awesome, some of them torturous experiences, but I've eaten these ones.

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Quammy

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1984 by George Orwell

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy

FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

IT by Stephen King

 

 

Where was Moby Dick?

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